Propaganda seeks to create in the public a chronic sense of crisis, which in turn justifies the expansion of executive power and the secrecy surrounding it. The executive then asserts his “presidential” qualities by…
Fist-Pumping And Unsung Success
Definitions As Reminder (more…)
THAT’S NOT NEWS!
Americans Like Their News. They Like To Get Their News From Social Media. They Don’t Expect Their News To Be Accurate. (more…)
China: Thanks Google, We’ll Take Good Care Of The Internet
In demonstrating that a company as mighty as Google was unable to resist the allure of the Chinese market, despite the terms of entry, Beijing will advance its campaign to remake global internet governance…
Kavanaugh: Birth Control Is ‘Abortion-Inducing Drugs’
On the third day of Senate committee hearings, Trump’s pick for a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States of America, Brett Kavanaugh, called women’s birth control ‘abortion-inducing drugs’. Dawn Laguens, executive…
It’s Closer Than You Think
[junkie-dropcap]A[/junkie-dropcap]ny person who has taken the oath of office of President of the United States of America and then has their electoral legitimacy questioned every week as consequence of a federal investigation into a…
Choices
America is standing at the abyss. Do we fall in? Do we jump in? Do we continue with eyes closed, minds lost in the chaos, allowing our nation to be simply pushed over the…
Free Expression A Human Right. And Then There’s Trump
“His attacks are strategic, designed to undermine confidence in reporting and raise doubts about verifiable facts” (more…)
Heroes And Cowards
While we salute the heroic life of John McCain we must also not forget the cowards living among us. "But I'm good at war. I've had a lot of wars of my own. I'm…
Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake News Invasion (Pre Sale)
Censored 2019, once again presents the News that Didn’t Make the News (and why) in our annual listing of the Top 25 underreported stories, as well as documenting the corporate media’s most egregious Junk…
What A Christian…
Chelsea Clinton’s Views on Abortion Are Like Hitler’s Views on ‘Killing the Jews’ Franklin Graham, pro-Trump, far right Christian evangelist, son of the late Billy Graham (more…)
Rove To Trump: Stop With The Stalin Thing
Karl Rove, President George W. Bush‘s Deputy Chief of Staff, thinks Trump is sounding too much like Stalin. How bad of an American president do you have to be to have Karl Rove -…
Not Just An Image: This Is Trump’s America
Electoral gains by the far right in Europe have inspired American extremists to exchange their white robes and brown shirts for business suits in a bid to enter mainstream politics. (more…)
Monday Ménage
Mark Twain. Leo Tolstoy. Unknown. (more…)
Who Is The Real Enemy of The People???
[junkie-dropcap]T[/junkie-dropcap]he 2016 Republican presidential candidate blamed evil media forces for his ridiculous performance at the first debate. He has blamed the media for his short-comings from the day he announced his candidacy. In fact,…
All The Usual Suspects and Then Some: RSF’s Predator Gallery
Reporters Without Borders has produced a gallery (with images and data) of world leaders afraid of Press Freedom. (more…)
History, Ain’t It Somethin’
Mass extremism, intolerance, a desperate desire for radical change - all factors that make a stable democracy impossible… .
No Surprises Here. It’s Happening!
[junkie-dropcap]T[/junkie-dropcap]he president of The United States gave a campaign-style speech at a steel plant in Granite City, Illinois Thursday which, not surprisingly, went off topic and was filled with outright lies and misinformation. (more…)
Remember When We Thought It Couldn’t Happen Here
Broadcasting has certain quite definite tasks to perform, particularly in view of the times in which we are living at this moment. (more…)
WH Deletes Putin Support For Trump From Helsinki Transcript
UPDATED (2018.07.26) At the Helsinki press conference, Putin was asked if he wanted Trump to be US president. Putin said yes! (more…)
This, Is The President of The United States of America
“Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening” (more…)
This, Is The Attorney General of The United States of America
[junkie-dropcap]A[/junkie-dropcap]t a high school conservative student leadership summit earlier today, Attorney General of The United States of America, Jeff Sessions, laughed with and joined students in Clinton-targeting chants of “lock her up”. Again, this…
America’s Truth and Consequence
True and false, good and bad, openly become categories of the political economy; they define the market value of men and things. The commodity form becomes universal, while at the same time, with the…
Post-Truth and Propaganda In The Digital Age
The Post (Truth) World: Reviving the “Propaganda Model Of News” For Our Digital Age. Rob Williams, Ph.D. “There is a literal truth emergency in the United States, not only regarding distant wars, torture camps,…














